D4vd’s name is back in headlines for the darkest reason possible.
The alt-pop singer, born David Anthony Burke, was arrested by Los Angeles police on April 16 on suspicion of murder in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenage girl whose remains were found last year inside a Tesla registered to him. He is currently being held without bail, and police say the case will be presented to the District Attorney’s office on Monday for filing consideration.
The arrest comes more than seven months after investigators made the grisly discovery in September 2025, when Rivas Hernandez’s decomposed body was found in the front trunk of Burke’s impounded Tesla Model Y. Authorities have said the car had been left abandoned in the Hollywood Hills before it was towed, and the condition of the remains suggested she had been dead for weeks before she was found.
Rivas Hernandez had originally been reported missing from Lake Elsinore in Riverside County in 2024, when she was just a young teenager. Her disappearance later turned into one of the most disturbing unresolved cases tied to a rising music star, especially after investigators began looking more closely at Burke and searching locations linked to him. While his team had previously said he was cooperating with authorities, that investigation has now escalated into an arrest.
Before all this, Burke had been one of the fastest-rising names in alternative pop. He broke out in 2022 with viral tracks like Here With Me and Romantic Homicide, built a huge following online, signed with Interscope, and released his debut album Withered. But by September 2025, that momentum had already started to unravel, with dates on his Withered tour being canceled in the immediate aftermath of the body discovery.
For now, the case is still moving through the legal system, and prosecutors have not yet announced formal charges. The next major step is whether the District Attorney decides to file the case, which could determine how quickly this investigation turns into a full criminal prosecution.